Sekolah Lama

This is an old photo of my primary school. Nowadays most people back home don’t send their kids to government-run primary school anymore and opted for private-run ones instead. Even in the new RKN no upgrading primary school standard was mentioned, it was only for secondary schools. Yet there are still many government primary schools dotted around the countries and are hardly bulging with students. So where has it all gone wrong? Whereas most of the private schools are overcrowding.

Most of us are graduates of the government schooling from primary to upper six; and yet somehow we managed to get through our qualification and lead successful career. Nowadays given wider choices, we send our kids to what we think are best for them. But elsewhere be it in Singapore or Europe, there are not many private schools – if any these are only for the expatriate communities or the upper classes. It is expected that a primary school in your neighbourhood is as good as any in the rest of the country.